NGC 6582 NED01
NGC 6582 NED01
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E-S0
689 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
152k ly
across
14.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 689 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6582 NED01 as it looked roughly 689 million years ago. The photons left before that much of history had passed, and are only now reaching us. This distance is estimated from the galaxy's redshift, so the lookback time is approximate.
Nearest galaxies
NGC 6582 NED02Elliptical15 million ly
apartIC 1281 NED02Galaxy170 million ly
apartNGC 6290Spiral190 million ly
apartNGC 6462Elliptical200 million ly
apartNGC 6787Spiral200 million ly
apartNGC 6817 NED02Barred spiral220 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1281 NED02Galaxy170 million ly
apartNGC 6290Spiral190 million ly
apartNGC 6462Elliptical200 million ly
apartNGC 6787Spiral200 million ly
apartNGC 6817 NED02Barred spiral220 million ly
apart
Source: structural data (position, morphology, brightness, redshift) from OpenNGC (CC BY-SA). Distance computed by gravityfinder from redshift via Hubble's law (H0 = 70 km/s/Mpc).